“No child left behind” now has a whole different meaning

Random notes from the Foley Page-gate:

CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien asked White House Communications Director Tony Snow as "a parent" why any communication between a 16-year old page and a Member of Congress doesn't "raise red flags, major, massive red flags." Snow responds, "[I]t's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill. And there have been other scandals, as you know, that have been more than simply naughty e-mails."

LSB: "Naughty emails"? A 52-year old man emails a 16-year old boy and asks him to measure his penis and that’s just a “naughty email?” When will the wingnuts start to blame the kids? That is the GOP-SOP afterall. Well, Matt Drudge blames the kids here, just listen.

Snow further added, “But before we prosecute, let’s figure out what all the facts are. That’s probably the most important thing to do is to be fair to all parties.” (Translation: “But before we prosecute, let’s figure out how we can get this thing under investigation quickly so that the President and everyone else in the GOP can say ‘I can’t comment on something that is currently under investigation.’”)

Chris in Paris is still searching for radical right outrage on Foley/cover-up scandal. Where's Rush to provide some moral righteousness during these troubled times? Surely he must be bothered to hear there was a sexual predator running free in Congress, all under the watchful eye of Congressional leaders. James Dobson somehow can't find it in him to be as outraged with this scandal and says "it's not the time to be talking about politics" now that the GOP owns this sex scandal (along with Abramoff, Iraq, DeLay, etc) plus cover-up. Where is Jerry Fallwell? Pat Robertson? Surely the Christian Broadcasting Network has something to say about a cover-up and sex scandal in Congress, right? Hello? Is anybody there? So does this mean that the radical right approves of both the sex scandal and the Congressional cover-up? And to think that this sounded like such a clear cut situation of right versus wrong.

LSB: Foley was a gifted fundraiser for other Repubs. Isn't it interesting that he was able to give $100,000 to the Republican Congressional Committee at about the same time they were learning about his "inappropriate" emails? Anyone else hear the voice of Watergate's Deep Throat whispering, "follow the money..." ?